Chen Yingjie unleashes the tiger in our hearts for Chinese New Year at Danysz gallery

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The works presented follow the daoism component of Chen Yingjie's paintings and unleash the tiger in our hearts. The artist indeed believes that there is a tiger in everyone's minds: vivid, majestic and powerful but also brave and fearless. It is up to us to boldly release it as a strength and wisdom of life.

In the past, the tiger in Chen's paintings was used to represent anger, but through time it gradually came to express a catharsis for the complex emotions in our hearts, as well as the chasing of dreams as conveyed by the animal’s strength and beauty. For the artist: “we need to overcome the challenges in our journey and trust our instinct. We will grow through struggles, find strength in defiance and courage in fear."

Taking “hunger” as the core idea to depict portraits of animals, Chen Yingjie has been developing a series of paintings entitled “Stay Hungry”: diary-like artworks based on the artist’s own experiences, aiming at observing the delicate emotions, life stories and life journey. The “hunger” also contains different creative states and experiences, and has gradually become a driving force to encourage exploration and innovation in a diversified era.

The tiger has actually always been an important figure to paint for Chen Yingjie. This fascination aroused when the artist joined the WWF（World Widelife Fund) to take part in initiatives to study and protect wild tigers in the forests of Cambodia. It led the artist to create a series of works on this specific subject in response to global environmental issues that enabled him to push further the limits of his painting talent.

‘The Year of the Tiger’ by Chen Yingjie, a must-see at Danysz Gallery Shanghai to celebrate Chinese New Year!

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